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Tomaso Buzzi Seating

Italian, 1900-1981

Architect, urban planner, glass, furniture and landscape designer, and interior decorator — Tomaso Buzzi was a 20th-century renaissance man. Buzzi, along with his frequent collaborator Gio Ponti, led Italy’s Novecento Milanese movement of the 1920s and ‘30s — an approximate equivalent to France’s Art Deco movement. While Buzzi is prized for chairs, tables and other furnishings that modernized the majestic lines of 18th-century designs, he is best known for the remarkable, jewel-toned glassware he produced in a two-year stint as the artistic director of the Venini glassworks on the Venetian island of Murano.

     Buzzi was born in 1900 in the town of Sondrio in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. He studied at the Milan Polytechnic, and soon after he graduated joined a lively Milanese decorative arts scene. In 1927, he and Ponti joined fellow designers Paolo Venini and Michele Marelli to form a design collaborative called Il Labirinto (the Labyrinth), Italy’s answer to the Wiener Werkstätte. In 1932, when Venini's glass company lost the design services of the sculptor Napoleone Martinuzzi, who left to start his own factory, he turned to Buzzi. The young architect’s careful study of lighting design and a love for experimentation yielded major innovations in Murano glass fixtures. The forms of his wares were inspired by sources from antiquity as diverse as Persian urns and animal-shaped Etruscan jugs. Buzzi developed a complex glass-layering method that produced deep, glowing pastel colors that ran from pink to peach, to sea-green and slate blue.

     Buzzi furniture has a noteworthy elegance and nobility. Delicate chairs with arrow-shaped backs and elaborate burled wood armoires are typical of his aesthetic, and would add a sophisticated note to any room, modern or traditional. And an exemplary piece of Buzzi’s vibrant, lustrous glassware would merit a place of honor in every design collection.

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Creator: Tomaso Buzzi
Gio Ponti Tomaso Buzzi Sofa
Gio Ponti Tomaso Buzzi Sofa

Gio Ponti Tomaso Buzzi Sofa

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Gio Ponti Tomaso Buzzi Sofa

By Gio Ponti, Tomaso Buzzi

Located in Red Lion, PA

Truly beautiful one of a kind authorized copy of Gio Ponti and Tomaso Buzzi 1930 Sofa. Walnut frame upholstered in satin silk. Manifactured by Carpani F.ll inc Literature: Mobili De...

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Tomaso Buzzi Set of eight chairs - 1954 Italian Design from a private commission
Tomaso Buzzi Set of eight chairs - 1954 Italian Design from a private commission

Tomaso Buzzi Set of eight chairs - 1954 Italian Design from a private commission

By Tomaso Buzzi

Located in Milan, IT

Tomaso Buzzi was the real designer for the Italian and Milanese upper middle class in the post-World War II period. His creations, as in this case, were often commissioned creations, designed for a specific family and on the occasion of an overall furnishing project, to be followed from A to Z. This set of eight chairs together with a fine dining table was designed for an apartment on Via Conservatorio, deep in the heart of bourgeois Milan, near Villa Necchi...

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Tomaso Buzzi Pair of Wooden Structure Chairs , Italy 1929
Tomaso Buzzi Pair of Wooden Structure Chairs , Italy 1929

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Tomaso Buzzi (Sondrio, 1900 - Rapallo, 1981) Italian architect and Designer ( Well Known for the conception of Famous "La Scarzuola" in Italy) Pair of wood sculpted structure and ne...

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Rare Set of Two Wood Armchairs by Tomaso Buzzi, Italy, 1930s
Rare Set of Two Wood Armchairs by Tomaso Buzzi, Italy, 1930s

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By Tomaso Buzzi

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Mid 1930s armchairs by Tomaso Buzzi. Literature and provenance available upon request.

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Tomaso Buzzi seating for sale on 1stDibs.

Tomaso Buzzi seating are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of wood and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Tomaso Buzzi seating, although brown editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original seating by Tomaso Buzzi were created in the Art Deco style in italy during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider seating by Gino Maggioni, Vittorio Valabrega, and Bloomingdale's. Prices for Tomaso Buzzi seating can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $1,945 and can go as high as $8,897, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $4,085.

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